Activists expect bigger rallies (Great Freerepublic coverage in Fayetteville, NC Paper!)

Fayetteville Observer ^ | Sunday, March 13, 2005 | By Allison Williams, Staff writer

[TaxRelief]

Old North State Chapter of FR in the media limelight *Ping* (We got last word!:-)

Please FRmail Constitution Day, TaxRelief OR Helms if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

[AQGeiger]

There's a wife of an 82nd ABN soldier currently serving in Iraq speaking at the anti-war, anti-military, anti-American demonstration!?! What a little twit. That really, really makes my blood boil.

Her hubby is probably some pogue who thought he would never get deployed, and doesn't ever even leave his compound.

Sorry for the rant, but considering that my husband is in the 82nd ABN and finishing up his second deployment to Iraq, that just infuriates me.

[TaxRelief]

It would be great if you were speaking at our podium at the same time. :-)

[tgslTakoma]

Big DC ping!

Road trip, anyone?

Weather's much warmer down Fayetteville way; and the NC Chapter Freepers are great hosts!

You'll have a fantastic time Freeping the lefties - not in hostile territory, for a change.

[GVnana]

Wow. You can't pay for press like that!

[tgslTakoma]

Police are not allowing the motorcycles that the Rolling Thunder, a Fayetteville POW/MIA veterans organization, brought last year.

It sounds like somebody got really bent out of shape over Rolling Thunder's thunderous editorial response to one of the lefty speakers last year.

Seriously though, the RT folks were very well-behaved; and if they were lefties that were told they couldn't bring their vehicles in, the civil rights lawsuits would be flying all over the place.

[GOPJ]

"Way to go" bump.

[GOPJ]

night bump

[BillF]

Pinging you and adding you to the DC Chapter ping list.

Also, and for the record on this thread, the primary thread on the planned Fayetteville FReep is here FREEP - Fayetteville NC, 3/19 "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" (and counterprotest the 5th Column Marxists).

[BillF]

TaxRelief, great work in promoting and organizing this.

Thanks for the ping from each of you.

Interesting to read that "On March 20 . . . Military Families Speak Out is scheduled to meet at the Clarion Hotel on Cedar Creek Road. Iraq Veterans Against the War and Gold Star Families plan to meet at the Clarion Prince Charles Hotel on Hay Street."

[b4its2late]

[dstarr]

The Clarion on Cedar Creek Rd is about 5 minutes from where I live. It is at Exit 49 on I-95. The Clarion Prince Charles used to be a Radisson. It is next to the train station. I think some of you stayed there last year.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/viewGroups.asp?catId=9

[rrrod]

ya can count on ol rude and crass rrrod being there!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I'll be joining you folks in solidarity-FReeping those treasonous freaks of nature-as they amass in Central Park, this coming weekend.

EAST COAST CONNECT

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

[R. Scott]

''There's dissatisfaction from military families,'' Fager said, ''that this war is not good for America, not good for our military, not good for Iraq and not good for our world.''

From a .mil web page, credited to USA Today:
The survey of 1,967 Iraqis was conducted Feb. 27-March 5, after Iraq held its first free elections in half a century in January. According to the poll, 62% say the country is headed in the right direction and 23% say it is headed in the wrong direction. That is the widest spread recorded in seven polls by the group, says Stuart Krusell, IRI director of operations for Iraq. In September, 45% of Iraqis thought the country was headed in the wrong direction and 42% thought it was headed in the right direction. The IRI is a non-partisan, U.S. taxpayer-funded group that promotes democracy abroad.

Police are not allowing the motorcycles that the Rolling Thunder, a Fayetteville POW/MIA veterans organization, brought last year.

WHAT!!!

[cf_river_rat]

Police are not allowing the motorcycles that the Rolling Thunder, a Fayetteville POW/MIA veterans organization, brought last year.

That bites.
Do you know if I can bring a bullhorn? I'm going to buy one if I can bring it, and if I can find one for sale.

Heh Heh Heh... That's my boy!

[maica]

Suggestion for a poster, referring to the "anti-war" speakers, in the manner of Protest Warriors -

Speakers

Against

Democracy

[George Smiley]

Weather's much warmer down Fayetteville way; and the NC Chapter Freepers are great hosts!

It's snowing in Raleigh even as I type this.

: ^ )

I REALLY wish I could go but I'm stuck here because

1) I'm on-call this week, and

2) One of our data centers is having a ten-hour powerdown Saturday and I have several clusters of systems to shut down and bring back up.

(It's gonna be a long day with a big dead spot in the middle. Unfortunately we have more than one data center. If everything was down and I knew it'd be down for long enough, I'd sneak away, bring my laptop for dial-ins, and hope for the best.)

So those of you that I met at the State Capitol rally please shout a little louder to make up for my absence.